About me
I also co-run Critical Moment Theatre, and have produced R&Ds, industry sharings, online readings and digital audio trails, including Supernovas for Super Loners, Open Door, Red Rain and Speaking Stones. Critical Moment's work has been supported by Arts Council England, Exeter Theatre Northcott, Mayor of London, Arnold Clark Community Fund, NHS Somerset Trust, and the Peggy Ramsay Foundation.
I'm also General Manager for New Diorama Theatre, supporting companies and ensembles to make radical and collaborative work.
My Plays
All Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost
Synopsis:
Eira and Becca are on a blind date. It’s not going well. When they start to connect over a love of old creepy Internet stories, things start to slide down a very uncomfortable rabbit hole.
All Unsaved Progress Will Be Lost is a funny, surreal and ominous play for the generation that grew up with the Internet about the stories we share, AI, and feeling powerless against the end of the world.
Number of Characters: 5
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3
Length (in Pages): 57
Location: Swansea and Multiple Alternate Realities
Key Words: funny, surreal, ominous
Has the Play Been Produced? No
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
Ellipsism
Synopsis:
The arrival of St Helena's new governor Hudson Lowe quickly goes awry as he’s confronted by the island’s chief resident - Napoleon Bonaparte. Eager to keep the exiled ex-emperor in his place, the two conspire against each other, creating a toxic wasteland of deception, infidelity, and treason for everyone around them in this dark political farce.
Number of Characters: 5
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 5
Length (in Pages): 76
Location: St Helena
Key Words: Napoleon, political, dark comedy, farce
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
***** \'Beautifully eccentric\' Bath Fringe
Sandcastle
Synopsis:
It’s 1987 in New York. Howard’s angry at the world. Bill’s terrified of it. And Howard’s got one night to write a song that he’s pitching to Disney. How can he use his work to construct a place of love and tolerance when the world around him seems so devoid of it?
Number of Characters: 3
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 3
Length (in Pages): 52
Location: New York
Key Words: queer, biographical, surreal
Has the Play Been Produced? Yes
Are the Rights Available? No
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
Supernovas for Super Loners
Synopsis:
Ever had mental health so poor that you caused the apocalypse?
Dylan’s super anxious, super lonely, and super not having fun being alive.
So when an intervention from a stranger forces him to open up and make connections, there’s really only one way it can end - with the moon crashing into Swansea and threatening armageddon.
Supernovas for Super Loners is a tender, fun, world-ending folk-pop musical about mental health, Welshness and letting go.
Number of Characters: 5
Minimum Number of Actors Required: 5
Length (in Pages): 82
Location: Swansea
Key Words: musical, Welsh, mental health, apocalypse
Has the Play Been Produced? No
Are the Rights Available? Yes
Has the Play Been Published? No
Award nominations/wins:
Reviews:
**** 'Full of depth and determinedly clever' - Ask the Ushers review of 20 minute extract in Viable digital scratch night at Bread & Roses Theatre in 2021.
